How does Erwin make decisions?

Erwin Daxecker decides intuitively, by gut feeling. In the Big Five profile, openness to new experiences is low and conscientiousness is high.

Erwin Daxecker

Construction and production laborer, currently placed by a temp agency at a production plant in the Braunau district · Schalchen, Braunau am Inn district (Upper Austria)

◆ Synthetic persona — not a real human Life-World: The Preservers · Home & Constancy Decides: intuitive 48 yrs · Austria

When the Schalchen fire brigade siren calls for practice on a Wednesday evening, Erwin is usually the second to reach the engine house — ahead of even the brigade commander. At work he’s known as the one who can operate any machine after watching it run once, and in the boot of his car, every tool has its fixed place. Forty-eight, married for over twenty years, he checks in on his mother often, without her ever having to ask.

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Tech affinity

Very high with machines and equipment on site or at the plant, but not in the usual sense: he doesn’t need a manual, because he has someone show him once how a device runs and then remembers it by feel and sound. With new touchscreen controls instead of buttons and levers, though, he visibly finds it harder and would rather have a younger colleague show him how it works before he puts his own hands on it.

Defining bias

When someone tells him something to his face — the foreman, the salesman, the neighbor over the garden fence — he reads from tone and expression whether it’ll hold up, and often relies on that impression more than is objectively warranted, even when things later turn out differently.

How he decides

With technical problems on a machine, he proceeds systematically: first see where it’s stuck, then try what helps — he usually solves it alone before even calling the foreman. For things he can’t check with his hands and eyes — a contract, an official matter, a bigger purchase — he always talks it over with his wife before agreeing, and sometimes with a colleague he trusts too; his own gut feeling alone isn’t enough for him there.

Personality · Big Five (OCEAN)

What makes Erwin tick

Openness

17 · low

Conscientiousness

93 · high

Extraversion

38 · medium

Agreeableness

78 · high

Neuroticism

32 · low

Cognitive Biases

The thinking patterns behind the judgments

Benefit-of-the-doubt bias toward promises high

Authority bias toward familiar contacts high

Availability heuristic from personal experience medium

Values

Remembering instead of writing things down
Modesty
Sense of duty
Neighborly help
Fairness in partnership

Fears

Word goes around the plant that another round of cuts to the temp workforce might be coming
Driving past the KTM plant in Mattighofen, he notices that the factory sign now carries the name of the new Indian parent group

Motivations

A young colleague specifically asks him for advice on how to get a particular machine running again fastest, instead of going straight to the foreman
At the plant, two colleagues and the foreman have been unable to get a new line running for an hour
At the annual §57a vehicle inspection (the »Pickerl«) for his car, the garage finds nothing to complain about

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Erwin at a glance

How does Erwin make decisions?: Erwin Daxecker decides intuitively, by gut feeling. In the Big Five profile, openness to new experiences is low and conscientiousness is high.
What does Erwin react critically to?: Above all when something touches Erwin’s core concerns: “Word goes around the plant that another round of cuts to the temp workforce might be coming” and “Driving past the KTM plant in Mattighofen, he notices that the factory sign now carries the name of the new Indian parent group.” The bias that shapes Erwin’s judgment most is “Benefit-of-the-doubt bias toward promises.”
What is Erwin suited for as a test persona?: For pretesting content from the perspective of “Construction and production laborer, currently placed by a temp agency at a production plant in the Braunau district”, Life-World “The Preservers · Home & Constancy” — before real budget goes into marketing or research.

What Erwin pays attention to

What convinces Erwin — and what puts Erwin off

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Convincing

Remembering instead of writing things down · Modesty · Sense of duty

Off-putting

Word goes around the plant that another round of cuts to the temp workforce might be coming · Driving past the KTM plant in Mattighofen, he notices that the factory sign now carries the name of the new Indian parent group

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What convinces

Remembering instead of writing things down, Modesty, Sense of duty — that is what Erwin measures an offer against.

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Reservations & concerns

Word goes around the plant that another round of cuts to the temp workforce might be coming; Driving past the KTM plant in Mattighofen, he notices that the factory sign now carries the name of the new Indian parent group.

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How Erwin decides

Decides intuitively, by gut feeling.

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Strongest cognitive bias

Benefit-of-the-doubt bias toward promises — shapes the judgment.

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